This is a robust text - challenging and provocative and one which students will benefit from reading. Layder guides the reader through a large body of relevant literature. He draws attention to the strengths and weaknesses of particular approaches as he sees them and he is not afraid to offer his own judgements on the issues and problems he addresses' - Professor John Eldridge, University of Glasgow
Derek Layder's Understanding Social Theory, provides one of the most comprehensive, incisive and readable treatments of the macro-micro problem now available' -...
This is a robust text - challenging and provocative and one which students will benefit from reading. Layder guides the reader through a large body of...
In this textbook, Derek Layder offers a better understanding of the links between theory and research, and provides an analysis of the relationship between the two.
In this textbook, Derek Layder offers a better understanding of the links between theory and research, and provides an analysis of the relationship be...
Written in a clear, accessible way, drawing on exciting up-to-date examples and providing a reflective perspective on research as a human process, this book makes for a crucial companion to conducting small-scale research.
Written in a clear, accessible way, drawing on exciting up-to-date examples and providing a reflective perspective on research as a human process, thi...
A central problem in contemporary social theory is that of providing an account of social interaction that does justice both to the self-monitoring capacities of the individuals involved and to the society that 'frames' the interaction. This book attempts to resolve this problem, arguing for an objectivist or 'structuralist' account which does not undervalue the importance of the indexical and negotiated aspects of interaction, and which takes seriously the Marxist-rationalist critique of empiricism and humanism and the associated idea that society should be treated as a supra-individual,...
A central problem in contemporary social theory is that of providing an account of social interaction that does justice both to the self-monitoring...
